While abstinence for life is unnatural, there is still another reason, beyond the purely physical inadvisability, for abstinence during adolescence. This reason has to do with the mental side of love, as well as the physical. Young people, stepping into the dawn of love-life, are naturally prone to fasten their affections on the first person they see. Or, at least, to fall in love easily, and lightly. The normal girl yields to a series of tentative love illusions before she meets with a man who is fitted to become a husband for whom her love will be more or less permanent. The adolescent girl falls madly in love with a man because he is a “divine dancer,” because his hair curls in a provocative way, because of a thousand transient reasons, none of which is a good basis for future marital happiness. Even if the cause of her love is founded on a firmer reason, even if the young man she loves is in every way compatible to her eighteen-year-old psychology, it is unwise to marry so early. He may be everything desirable in the eyes of the young girl, they may like the same things, have the same tastes in literature, etc., but, still, waiting is wiser. For, the man who completely satisfies the eighteen-year-old girl may fall far below the standards of the same girl, when she views him from the pinnacle of twenty-five. The adolescent girl is unformed mentally as well as physically. Her standards are necessarily much lower than they will be five or more years later. She cannot be expected, nor is she able, to look ahead toward the time when her judgments will be matured, and to choose accordingly. We repeat that self-restraint is to be greatly desired during the adolescent years.